Download or read book Four Centuries of Special Geography written by O.F.G. Sitwell and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
Download or read book The Young Mathematician s Guide The Eleventh Edition written by John WARD (of Chester.) and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young Mathematician s Guide written by John Ward and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Theophilus Desaguliers written by Audrey T. Carpenter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age. John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with the Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, no less than three times. He was a pioneering engineer: the water supply of Edinburgh, the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament and the first Westminster Bridge all owed him a debt. In a different sphere, Desaguliers became the third Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons which was founded in 1717. He is remembered worldwide for his seminal influence during those early days of Freemasonry. He also wrote poetry and had an influential circle of patrons, including George I and Frederick, Prince of Wales (whom he initiated as a Mason at a specially convened lodge at Kew). This biography, based on original research, describes a charismatic character who was a major figure of his age.
Download or read book The method of teaching and studying the belles lettres Translated from the French The fifth edition written by Charles Rollin and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing History in Late Modern English written by Isabel Moskowich and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The chapters cover methodological issues, the period and the status of the discipline itself, as well as pilot studies for the description of scientific discourse using CHET. They embrace topics in several linguistic fields: discourse analysis, syntax, semantics, morpho-syntax. The studies take into account extralinguistic parameters of texts, such as year of publication, sex of the author, geographical provenance of authors and the communicative formats/genres to which the text sample belongs. In the particular case of CHET, the collected samples can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as the above-mentioned metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. The book is of interest for scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics, as well as linguists in general. The metadata information used for analysis can also be of interest for historians and historians of science in particular.The Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), accompanied by the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), purpose-designed software by IrLab, is accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21849
Download or read book Arithmetic in the plainest and most concise method hitherto extant Tenth edition written by George Fisher (Accomptant) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of books in various languages contained in the library collected by Richard Shepherd bequeathed by him to the mayor and aldermen of Preston and since his death augmented written by William Laing (A.B.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe and the British Geographical Imagination 1760 1830 written by Paul Stock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
Download or read book The Art of Teaching Physics written by David M. Stewart Museum and published by Les éditions du Septentrion. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Whipple Museum of the History of Science written by Joshua Nall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A window into cultures of scientific practice drawing on the collection of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book Arithmetick in the Plainest and Most Concise Methods Hitherto Extant written by George Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Linguistic and Translation Studies in Scientific Communication written by M. Lluïsa Gea Valor and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a collection of papers which seek to provide further insights into the way scientific and technical knowledge is communicated (i.e., written, transmitted, and translated) nowadays, not only in the academic sphere but also in society as a whole. Language in science has traditionally been valued for prioritising objective, propositional content; however, interpersonal and pragmatic dimensions as well as translation perspectives are worth exploring in order to better understand the mechanisms of specialised communication. Accordingly, the contributions in this volume cover topics of special interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of linguistics and translation, such as the popularisation and transmission of scientific knowledge via ICTs; terminology and corpus-based studies in scientific discourse; genres and discourse in scientific and technical communication; the history and evolution of scientific language; and translation of scientific texts.
Download or read book Placing the Enlightenment written by Charles W. J. Withers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment was the age in which the world became modern, challenging tradition in favor of reason, freedom, and critical inquiry. While many aspects of the Enlightenment have been rigorously scrutinized—its origins and motivations, its principal characters and defining features, its legacy and modern relevance—the geographical dimensions of the era have until now largely been ignored. Placing the Enlightenment contends that the Age of Reason was not only a period of pioneering geographical investigation but also an age with spatial dimensions to its content and concerns. Investigating the role space and location played in the creation and reception of Enlightenment ideas, Charles W. J. Withers draws from the fields of art, science, history, geography, politics, and religion to explore the legacies of Enlightenment national identity, navigation, discovery, and knowledge. Ultimately, geography is revealed to be the source of much of the raw material from which philosophers fashioned theories of the human condition. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Placing the Enlightenment will interest Enlightenment specialists from across the disciplines as well as any scholar curious about the role geography has played in the making of the modern world.
Download or read book The New Method of Fortification as Practised by Monsieur de Vauban Together with a New Treatise of Geometry written by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arithmetick in the Plainest and most Concise Methods hitherto Extant With new improvements for dispatch of business in all the several rules As also fractions vulgar and decimal The seventh edition with additions and improvements etc written by George Fisher (Accomptant) and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arithmetick in the Plainest and Most Concise Methods Hitherto Extant written by George Fisher (Accomptant) and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
